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Forecasting for Scheduled delivery

Forecasting wind strengths and predicting output from wind plant has become a whole new wind industr...

Steep learning curve for grid operator

Such is the power wielded by Spain's transmission system operator that despite its threat to disconn...

A cry for better forecasters in Denmark

When the wind blows over western Denmark at speeds between five and 12 meters a second (m/s), every ...

Advantage of tight hour ahead forecasts

Having won a hard fought battle for fair treatment, wind plant generators in the United States North...

Efficiency and the balancing market

Balancing markets are emerging as the favoured mechanism by which market forces can be brought into ...

Forecasting focus on who pays in Spain

With more than 5500 MW of wind plant now online in Spain -- making up about 8% of total installed po...

BEWARE THE MARCH OF NUCLEAR

I would like to reinforce the comment made by Pritchard, Marmont and Gammon (Letters, September 2003...

Leases on Texas state lands for wind development

The Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) says he will offer leases on state lands for...

What the weather man says

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) is one of a small handful of suppliers of numerical weathe...

Balancing costs halved by forecasst program

Wind forecasting saves the largest German transmission system operator, E.on Netz, about EUR 150 mil...

Dutch not optimistic

More accurate wind forecasting methods will reduce the penalties paid by Dutch wind producers for va...

Forecasting wind plant output

As wind energy starts to contribute significantly to power supplies on both sides of the Atlantic, i...

Federal faltering

The August 14 blackout that affected about 45 million homes and businesses in North America has focu...

German utilities to mend their ways

An expert hearing on the balancing power market this month, initiated by Germany's federal economics...

Irish resource needs Europe link

Ireland should aim for 2000 MW of installed wind capacity by 2010, the Irish Wind Energy Association...

Regional transmission plans move forward

While federal government impotence on energy in America continues, wind advocates are involved in so...

Spin and crossed wires

Politicians blinded by their own spin can be an awful liability for those of us who have to pay for ...

A revolution for local transmission networks

The bulk of the rewiring effort to prepare Britain for 10% of electricity from renewables by 2010 co...

Regulating for least cost electricity

The government's favouritism of Scottish generation is running at odds with Ofgem's remit to regulat...

Providing grid service -- Wind integration

As the size of wind turbines and wind farms grow, transmission operators want greater assurance that...

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